Just because December of 2021 would have been the best time to leave, you can still leave after that, the longer you wait the higher the cost, but God is merciful, and He extends mercy to those who will repent.
The Greatest depression is coming, are you ready?
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People getting laid off from tech jobs like the new ones you are reporting and even some of the past months. They will be counted as employed bro. Reason being is tech always has a good severance package they are just cash heavy and sitting on billions of dollars of cash.
I looked at just Googles package because the others are going to be the same or very similar to compete for labor. Anyway Google gives 6 months of health coverage. They also provide 4 months of current pay. Then they give a additional two weeks of pay for every year of service with the company. So for example if you had 10 years of employment with the company you are going to receive an additional 20 weeks of pay.
So anyway uncle Sam counts people who are receiving severance pay as employed for the jobs report.
Wonder why Putin is feeling bolder after every pep talk with Trump? Is it because he can feel the pasifist mindset of Trump? We are after all looking at two presidents, where one of them is a seasoned KGB/FSB operative vs a draft dodger. Why would Putin respect that?
Trumps having a hard time understanding that when Putin says things like "all Ukraine is ours" it don't translate to "we will negotiate Ukraine not being Russia" but instead means "you need to stop supplying arms to parts of Russia unless you want ww3.". Or maybe Trump understood it this time and that's why he stopped arms shipments after they spoke the other day.
Or is it the grand chess match, or???
Then again, the "draft dodger" just dropped a payload on another part of the world, so surely Putin might respect that.
Sure. He did. On Iran. Not something Putin will make a point about for strategical reasons. However, the trail of the communication between the two presidents is leaving a scent of chicken on our part. Not a good thing in world politics.
Yeah, only that Putin is bluffing. Trump should call the bluff. Thing is that Putin has no choice but keeping the war going. When it comes to an end it’ll be the end of the line for him as well.
It's difficult for me to see this "scent of chicken" you speak of. There's a chess-match with Russia that is much different than playing any games with Iran. It seems clear that if we could stop Russia as was done with Iran we'd likely have done so. Wisdom and chicken are different levels of the game that's been on the board for quite some time. I'd hate to hear of active military thinking any differently. As I recall, you have a few years behind you. You know this is not a kid's video game.
It’s not really about what you like or not. Putin needs to get America off the table. The million dollar question is whether he succeeds or not. Now, we can always hope that Trump is playing strategically in the long haul, but the pattern of his actions so far tells us differently. It is a concern that Putin is stepping up his game after speaking with Trump. Attacking Iran is like bullying senators and congressmen. There’s no real downside. Even Putin doesn’t want Iran to develop nuclear weapons. So he’s perfectly fine with Trump attacking Iran. He’s not fine with America supporting Ukraine. So he let’s Trump know. What does Trump do then? That is what is going to define his presidency.
Trump can afford to be slow and methodical about this one. The real world knowledge we are picking up from this that is right now being integrated into our combined arms doctrine shaping how tomorrow we will fight the next war is invaluable.
Last summer congress passed a bill to form a drone corps under the Army. So at present the 2nd Brigade of the 101st Airborne is this new unit. Of the 21 soldiers in a platoon 9 of them are drone operators with the rest focusing on anti-air and other means to eliminate and deny enemy drones and ensure we have the skies and air superiority.
Hegseth is watching this and it is being considered and analyzed how can we also use drones to also cut cost by replacing helicopters with drones.
Cost as well as the drones we currently have we have seen the weakness they have and how we can cut cost going forward with our drones by eliminating the unnecessary and have them built to specifications to be fully mission capable.
So while it may seem cold hearted fact is we are learning a bit from this current war and how to integrate what we are learning for tomorrows war we may find ourselves in.
So I don't think it is as much of a matter of how this is going to define his presidency as much as we are improvising and adapting for tomorrow. So we can afford to go slow and soak up what we can. Slow is smooth, smooth is fast hooyah.
well I'm not that comfortable with a quarterback who wont listen to the advisers at the pentagon in the huddle. So things like fumble come to mind in the big boy games, light weights like Iran are okay but not this quarterback in today's game.
"Difficult to see" and 'not like' are not the same, not from my intended meaning at least.
Interesting response though.
Yes, you are right. It is a significant difference which I did not respond to correctly.
I have a question. Consider a person has just been let go from a good job say Microsoft or Google or even a white collar job from Amazon and the reason they got that job was because they had a four year college degree that they paid 200k to get. They were told in the long run that college degree would pay off. But suppose they have only been working for one year and so they haven't even come close to paying that off yet. That would mean that you would have had to see five years ago that this was a bad time to be paying 200k for a college degree. In other words they started college in 2020 right when the Pandemic was declared. That was your warning. However, there are a lot of people who have been working for five years or less that will also be let go. At this point they most likely have not paid off those college debts and that 200k spent on college was likely not going to pay off in the long run. Could anyone have known in 2016? Was the mortgage meltdown in 2008, a warning that told you the banks were corrupt, the government was corrupt and you can't trust them. Still, instead of going to college if you had spent that 200k to get a contractor business up and running you would most likely be in better financial shape today for both you and your family. It would have taken some moxie, but by 2025 your friends who went to college would have been out for over ten years and probably just paid off their loans when they get their pink slips.
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